# Founding Product Development Club

Surya Pugazhenthi served as Founder & President at Diablo Valley College (Aug – Dec 2023). Result: First product-focused club on campus; 30+ active members in one semester.

- **Organization:** Diablo Valley College
- **Role:** Founder & President
- **Dates:** Aug – Dec 2023
- **Result:** First product-focused club on campus; 30+ active members in one semester
- **Career period:** Season 1, Diablo Valley (2022 – 2024)

## Context

DVC had CS clubs that taught code, but nowhere for students to learn how real products get scoped, designed, and shipped.

## What Surya did

- Founded the college's first product-focused club and built its curriculum around shipping real projects, not just tutorials.
- Grew a community of students across technology, business, and design; social following grew 300% before the first meeting.
- Ran general and officer meetings, and secured a guest-speaker event with the Project Director of Codify Berkeley on software consulting and product strategy.

## Outcome

30+ active members in a single semester and a durable template for product education at DVC — the clearest early signal that building communities around builders is its own product.

Source page: https://suryapugaz.com/career/product-dev-club